School Report and Improvement Plan

Our Standards and Quality Report and School Improvement Plan have been published on the website this week. A quick read summary for families is available here: Wormit-Summary-for-Families.pdf

The full documents are available here: School Improvement Plan and Standards and Quality Report | Wormit Primary School

Your child will bring home a paper copy of the quick read summary today or at the start of next week and I will be sending a MS Form to gather your thoughts and ideas for parental involvement.

Lost Property

Please come and check lost property before the end of term if your child has lost any items. It will be removed in the holidays – if items are names they will be returned to the child and un-named items will be given to the local charity shops.

Message from Active Schools

We are a Nut Free School

Please remember we do have some children who have allergies to nuts. Please do not send any nuts or foods containing nuts into school. This included peanut butter or Nutella.

Photographs

I would like to thank all staff for supporting the photograph this week. It has been a bit of a hectic one but the children have enjoyed the process and I feel sure the photos will be lovely. Please don;t worry if your child lost their QR code. As long as there photo was taken I will be able to send a second copy next week. The final photos and sibling groups will be taken today.

Reminders

Please send your child to school with a water bottle filled with fresh water each day and with a change of shoes. On their PE day (listed below) please send them with PE Kit. More information is available here: A-ZInfo for Parents

P1 Mrs Lonie
Monday and Wednesday
P1/2 Mrs Dyer
Wednesday and Friday
P2/3 Ms Beaton
Wednesday and Thursday
P3/4 Mr Pellow
Tuesday and Wednesday
P4/5 Mrs Stewart and Mrs Thomson
Monday and Friday
P5 Miss Smith
Monday and Thursday
P6 Mrs Purves and Mrs Napier
Tuesday and Wednesday
P7 Ms MacLean
Tuesday and Thursday

Sports Dates

Apologies I omitted the wet weather back up and the Nursery sports from the school calendar.

The dates are:

Tuesday 9^th – P1-7 Sports Afternoon – spectators welcome. If it rains, the back up is Thursday 11th.

Wednesday 24th  – 10am – Nursery Sports  – spectators welcome. If it rains, the back up is Thursday or Friday also at 10am.

You might want to add these by hand to the sheet that came home. The website page is now up to date. Click Here.

Dalguise Trip

P7 parents – if you have not signed up or paid yet, I sent you an email yesterday. Please act upon this email by Sunday evening at the latest as I will be confirming numbers of Monday and the deposit is due. If your child is swithering about if to go or if you need help with payment, please email us and we can help.

Drug Awareness Workshops for P7 Parents

Later in the year, our P7s will do a workshop delivered by Barnado’s. The charity now offer workshops to P7 parents as well. Click here to find out more

Reading Challenge – £2000 for 2000 Books 

Please support our challenge by supporting your child to record their reading here:  Reading record

And collect sponsors here: Sponsor Form

We already have £185 pledged and 135 books recorded. All funds raised will be used to enhancing learning experiences and reduce the cost of the school day impacting positively on all children.

Parent Council Meeting

All parents of the school and nursery are invited to a Parent Council meeting, which will take place on Thursday, 25th September at 6:00pm in the school hall. Parent Council do great work for the school and they are getting ready to organise the after school Halloween parties. These are always great events but can only run if enough parents can volunteer to help. Please do come along to the meeting if you can – its a good opportunity to get more involved with the life of the school.

Message from Kingsbarns Primary re Cambo Cup

Reading Challenge

The reading challenge Sponsor Form is now live.Please click here to access the form and share the code with friends  and family members who might support this. The children will all bring home a QR code poster today or on Monday.

Please support your child to log their reading/listening here – we are aiming to read 2000 books as a team by Christmas.

Upcoming Dates

Tuesday 23^rd-Friday 26^th – School Photographs – At the request of the Parent Council, we are trying a new photographer this year. The photos will be taken over a few days. Nearer to the time, you will receive a note of your child’s day. All children will be included unless you have stated ‘No’ to photos on their General Permissions or unless you opt them out by telling the school office. If you have a pre-Nursery child you would like included in a family photo, or if you would like a different group shot taken (e.g. a cousin’s group) please contact the office to make an arrangement.

Thursday 25^th – P1-7 Flu Vaccines – your child will only receive the inoculation if you have returned the NHS permission form.

Enforcement of pavement parking ban, parking at dropped kerbs and double parking – message from Fife Council

Enforcement of this new legislation will start on Monday 1 September 2025 and Parking Attendants will issue Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) from that date.  The PCN level is £100, which is discounted to £50 if paid within 14 days.  Click here for more information

Photograph Policy

This has been updated slightly, following the recent consultation. Please click here to read it and so that you know what ticking Yes or No means on the General Permissions Form.

School Safety

All visitors to the school should ring the buzzer by the front door and speak to office staff in the first instance. Please don’t enter the school by any other door and please understand that children know they should not open the door to a visitor even if they know them. Nursery parents can drop off and collect from the Nursery gate but all P1-7 must be signed out and back in at the school office if you are dropping off late or collecting early. Please don’t go into the playground and approach your child – if you need to see them during the school day, come to the office in the first instance. If you come to collect your child from Nursery or from the school office, please be prepared for the fact that staff might ask you for ID if you are not someone they know. If you are collecting your child early for any reason, please call ahead to let us know. This is particularly important if some one is collecting your child for you, so we know that we are following your wishes.

Reading Challenge

We are holding a Reading Challenge Fundraiser this term with team Wormit aiming to raise £2000 by reading £2000 books. Information on how to collect sponsors will come out in due course but the challenge begins from today. Each book your child reads can be logged to count towards the challenge – it can be a reading book, a book from home or an audiobook and they don’t have to have read it themselves, they can have listened to you reading it or have shared the reading with you. The object is to raise some money for school fund and to celebrate our love of reading at Wormit PS.  Click here to find the form to log the book each time your child finishes one. 

Class and Year Group Photos

Thank you to everyone who completed our survey on class and year group photos. The majority consensus was that we will stop the tradition of submitting photos to the local press and instead we will gift a free, colour printed and laminated photo to each P1 and P7 family in term 1 as well sharing photos of all classes and year groups on the password protected class pages in term 1. This will allow you to discuss your child’s classmates with them. In term 4, we will have a professional photographer in to take photos of all classes and year groups – no obligation to buy. More information will follow.

Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood

All P1-7 parents should familiarise themselves with the teaching of this important curricular area which is ongoing through the school year. Please click here to find out out more. And here to view the learning and resources your child will be using. Any concerns or questions can be directed to me at lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk

School Improvement Planning

We are currently working on our school improvement plan and it will be ready to share with parents very soon along with last years’ Standards and Quality Report.

The Nursery team are going to be working with Fife Council’s Inclusive Practice Team to enhance their understanding of universal strategies to support all learning. This will enhance our provision of ways to make children feel accepted and supported and it will impact positively on all children. The Inclusive Practice Team will support our by providing training and sometimes will work directly with children in order to free a staff member up to attend training.

Click here to find what Active Schools are offering: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/QYn3DMyFYCw5CrZy?ref=Link

Activities at the Rio

tote bag poster 31st july

Fun at the rio poster 29th july

WEDNESDAY 16TH JULY POPPY BUBBLES POSTER

animal man 9th july poster

LETS DO LUNCH 17 JULY POSTER

Café Inc. Returns!

P5 Pipe Band Drumming

P5 will show off their drumming skills at assembly at 11am on Tuesday 1st July. P5 parents are welcome to come to watch. It will only be about 5 mins long so please don’t change arrangements to come, but if you are in the area you are free to pop in.

Thursday 4th July

This is the last day of school. The Church service at 9.30am – all P1-7 children will walk down with their class. P7 children will be leading the service, we will give them a good send off!  All parents are welcome to come to the church for the service – nursery parents are welcome to bring their child if they think they would enjoy it and drop them back at nursery afterwards.

The new term starts on 18th August for staff and 20th August for pupils.

Community News

gauldry gala poster 1

Free cafe inc 2025

Free Family Activities St. Andrews – Summer 2025

Archeology workshops

The Wardlaw Museum invites you to their  upcoming free family activity day ‘Future Makers’ being held at the Wardlaw Museum on Saturday 12^th July 12pm – 4pm: Future Makers Family Day. I’m also pleased to invite families to our free summer holiday workshops, running alongside our current exhibition, Rewrite the Future. These interactive sessions are a great way for children to get creative, explore new ideas, and have fun during the holidays! Sessions run on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 4 weeks throughout the summer holidays.

2-2.45pm Ages 3-7 years

3-4pm 8-12 years

• Week 1: Hack the Future       15^th & 17^th July
• Week 2: Build the Future        22^nd & 24^th July
• Week 3: Animate the Future Tuesday   29^th & 31^st July
• Week 4: Travel to the Future     5^th & 7^th August

All sessions are free, but booking is essential due to the limited capacity available for each session.

Bookings can be made on the University website:
Exhibition-related | Events

A parent l has asked me to share these:

Blue and White french lesson Flyer

Latin and Lore-4

Next Year at Wormit PS – Frequently Asked Questions

Next years P1-7 children had a good transition time yesterday and they met their new teacher and class. I recognise that the formation of composite classes feels new to many of you so I thought it would be helpful if I shared some frequently asked questions and the answers to them:

Why was my child placed in that class?

All decisions about classes have been made following Fife Council policy which is to split year groups according to age.

Can you move my child to a different class at my request?

Unfortunately, no. This isn’t a situation in which I can act on parent voice. To be fair to all families, I can not move a child at their parents request.

Will my children be able to play with friends from their current class even if they are separated next session?

Yes – we are finalising arrangements for doors, cloakrooms, lunchtime and playtimes at the moment. We are working to ensure all children get opportunities to mix within their year groups as well as within their new class. The finer detail of this will come to you next week but please be reassured on this point.

What about my child’s learning – if they are in the older group in the class does this mean they will repeat work and not make the same progress? If they are in the younger group will the work be too hard?

Absolutely not. We provide differentiation in all classes whether they are straight or composite. Your child will build on their current learning. I oversee all learning, teaching and attainment meetings within the school and have no concerns about any child’s placement in terms of their attainment or learning. The children who are in composites are in significantly smaller classes which will aid differentiation. The level they are working at across the curriculum will not change.

My child is feeling anxious about this change. What can we do?

Change often makes us feel like that. Reassure your child and help them look for positives. Remind them that they will still all their friends at school. Be reassured we will look after all children as they make this change. Once the school year has started, if we see any particular anxieties in your child or if you flag them up, we will see if any further supports are needed.

Can I meet with you to discuss?

Yes – I am happy to meet with parents if they have questions which can not be answered by the above or by the further information which is coming out next week. My preference would be to wait until your child is in their new class and we can see how things are settling before we meet, but I will accommodate meetings this term if you have questions not answered here.

Lucy Jess

Job opportunities

There are two Pupil Support Assistant Jobs at Wormit PS currently being advertised. Please share this link with anyone who is interested: Search Jobs – Fife Council Jobs and Careers Careers

Community News

Click here to find out about the Rotary Sandcastle Competition

Click here to find out about the Gauldry Charity Afternoon Tea

Click here to find out about the Future Makers Family Day

Newport Festival Information

Girl Guiding